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July 2020

July 03, 2020

REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES (AS CONSIDERED FROM HEBREW & CHRISTIAN BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE)

“The one who started the fire shall make full restitution.” Exodus 22:6b U.S. House of...

April 2020

April 13, 2020

WHAT ADDICTION HAS TAUGHT ME ABOUT HITTING BOTTOM & BOUNCING BACK FROM COVID19

The quest for wholeness begins in brokenness. What is not broken cannot be mended. What...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

The Dubious Message in Gov. Cuomo Declaring Liquor Stores Essential Businesses

I belong to a group of people who receive a daily briefing email from Gov....

March 16, 2020

Refuse the Apology of Fl. Gov. Candidate, Andrew Gillum, for Addiction

Former Mayor of Tallahassee and a Democratic, first-ever, black candidate for Governor of Florida, Andrew...

March 10, 2020

A Coronavirus Impossible Request: Don’t Touch Your Face

According to widely accepted data, people touch their face 15-20 times an hour. Yes, an...

March 06, 2020

Blame, Anger, Retribution & Forgiveness

A former legislator who was decidedly against “gay marriage” and accused of looting taxpayers by...

March 02, 2020

THE SPIRITUALITY OF CORONOVIRUS

It may sound callous and cavalier to say that there is a "silver lining" or...

January 2020

January 03, 2020

An Ounce of Prevention: Gun & Other Safety in the Church

I know clergy persons who carry licensed pistols into the pulpit and several houses of...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

THE MASS INCARCERATION OF PERSONS WITH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER

Is it acceptable to disproportionately incarcerate people because of the color of their skin, their...

August 02, 2019

The Overdose of Saoirse Kennedy Hill—From Park Avenue to Park Bench, From Yale to Jail: Addiction Is Beside or Within All of Us

Addiction is an equal opportunity destroyer. Whether you live on Park Avenue or on park...

July 2019

July 18, 2019

On Bubble Gum-Flavored Beer & Cotton Candy Flavored Vaping

Blue Point Brewing, a Long Island brewery owned by Anheuser-Busch as a flagship, test market...

July 15, 2019

The First Food Eaten & Drink Poured on the Moon, 50 Years Ago, Was Communion

On Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the Moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas...

July 03, 2019

Freed On the 4th from Politics & Religion

Having never once been taken to a church or other house of faith until I...

June 2019

June 24, 2019

The “Sober Curious Movement” ~ Let’s Have A Mocktail Before We Dance!

“Care for a mocktail?” “A what?” I asked. “A cocktail with no alcohol. The one...

June 13, 2019

It Has Taken Me 25 Years…

It has taken me 25 years to write it; but here is my sermon, in...

June 12, 2019

What a Mistake It Would Be to Hang-Out…

WHAT A MISTAKE it would be to hang-out only with people my age or younger....

June 05, 2019

I Am No Fan of War, But…

I AM NO FAN OF WAR, but June 6th is the 75th Anniversary of D-Day,...

May 2019

May 21, 2019

Tom Petty Backed-Down by Opioid Epidemic

Tom Petty was born in 1950 and died 66 years later in 2017; having earned...

May 03, 2019

Potential Measles Epidemic but No Medicare Coverage for Inoculations & Health Orgs. Sleep While Ships & Planes Are Quarntined

In the year 2,000, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) declared that measles has been...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

Addicted to Easter

Let’s get the bunny-and-jelly-bean thing out of the way. Long before I became a Christian...

April 20, 2019

Welcome to the In-Between-Ness of Holy Saturday

WELCOME to the space between what is lost and what is not yet found....

April 19, 2019

Don’t Mean to Bum You Out on “Good” Friday

DON'T MEAN TO BUM YOU OUT ON A "GOOD" FRIDAY ~ but I want you...

April 18, 2019

An “Openly Heterosexual” Pastor Responds to Yet Another Anti-LGBTQ Incident

Here on Long Island, New York, (not the “deep South” or some other easy stereotype...

April 15, 2019

The Spirituality of Tax Day

Today is Tax Day and the IRS wants our money. Many of us would “give...

March 2019

March 05, 2019

A Spiritual Selfie Taken in the Wilderness

Few people care to take a snapshot of what they really look like. If you...

February 2019

February 19, 2019

“Blessed” with Addiction? Give Me a Break!

Someone would have to be be out of their mind to claim they have been...

February 07, 2019

HITTING BOTTOM

"Having a Spiritual Awakening" and "A Quest for Wholeness" were the two traits of similarity...

January 2019

January 18, 2019

CALL FOR FURLOUGHED WORKER STRIKE ON VALENTINE’S DAY

PASTOR OF HISTORIC LONG ISLAND CHURCH CALLS FOR FURLOUGHED WORKERS STRIKE ON VALENTINES DAY With...

January 08, 2019

A Quest for Wholeness

There are many things that the Apostle Paul and Bill Wilson have in common. And...

December 2018

December 27, 2018

“Having Had a Spiritual Awakening” ~ The Apostle Paul & Bill W.

There are many things that the Apostle Paul and Bill Wilson ~ AA and the...

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